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Motorola Q9 Global

Motorola Q9 Global Reviews

MobileTechReview reviews the Motorola Q9 Global and writes, "Motorola's cameras once were below average. But in the past year they've gotten their act together and the Q9 Global's 2.0 megapixel camera is decent. Colors are reasonably accurate, there's plenty of image data to make for a sharp, but generally not over-sharpened image, and saturation is good under indoor low light...Software is no-frills: Motorola uses Microsoft's standard bundle Pictures and Videos application as the camera software. You can adjust resolution (max is 1600 x 1200 and there are a variety of lesser resolutions suitable for caller photo ID and MMS), adjust brightness, set white balance from a list of presets, turn the flash on or off and use burst mode or timer mode. There's 8x digital zoom and the camera can automatically save images to a storage card."

InfoSync reviews the Motorola Q9h Global and writes, "Images from the Q9h's 2-megapixel camera were blurry and washed-out looking, though not completely unrecognizable. Edges on objects were packed with noise and distortion, and even a simple happy-snap self-portrait came out looking too blurry to use on a desktop. Videos were usable in an emergency, but otherwise gave an underwater feeling, as images tended to waver when the camera moved. Image management was good, with folders and an easy-to-use organization menu, and we were especially impressed with the speed at which images were transferred over Bluetooth. Once paired, the Q9h thankfully didn't require a passkey every time we sent an image to our laptop, which is a nice change from other phones we've seen. Still, with images like these, we didn't do much transferring."

Datamation reviews the Motorola Q9h Global and writes, " Regular readers will know I'm not a great believer in or user of phone cameras. The Q 9h camera hasn't changed my mind. You still get the fuzzy images typical of cheap fixed-focus lenses and the hit-and-miss results on exposure, but it does at least have a flash, and it's generally better than many, possibly most. I also liked the way the camera application includes a menu item for uploading pictures to your Windows Live MySpace, a very easy way to get pictures off the Q 9h."

PC World reviews the Motorola Q Global and writes, "The Q has a built-in 2-megapixel camera with lots of menu controls, including image resolution, brightness, white balance, flash, and up to 8X digital zoom. But I was disappointed in the images I captured: Even those that looked good on the Q's much smaller screen were grainy and fuzzy on my PC."